[Pkg-vexim-devel] admin creation in vexim-mysql_2.2.1-3

[Rejo Zenger]

EHLO,

Without knowing much about vexim, I have tried this the package as it is
now available on alioth: the vexim-mysql_2.2.1-3 deb. I performed the
installation on a Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper server, running mysql 5.0.22 and
apache 2.0.55. 

The installation was fine, although it wasn't configured immediatelly as
other packages (php-pear php5-mysql php-db ucf dbconfig-common, etc)
were not yet installed. After fixing this, the configuration of the
vexim package was finished as well.

As an end-user of the package (the admin of a debian box), I was missing
one thing: the creation the admin user. I am not sure what the best way
to go would be. When doing a manual install, the install howto tells
you:

 | In order to add and delete domains from the database, you need to have
 | a "site admin". This users can create the initial postmaster users for
 | the individual domains. [...] I recommend you log in and change this
 | when you get a chance :-)

This user is not created by the package, nor there is any documentation
that one should do it by hand (and how to do that). In the vexim files
of Avleen, this is done from within vexim2/setup/mysql.sql. In the
equivalent in the package (/usr/share/doc/vexim/setup/mysql.sql.gz), the
lines at the bottom that create this user, are commented. As far as I
can tell, only the last part (the DES password part) should be. Is there
any reason for this? Or did I do something terribly wrong?

-- 
Rejo Zenger <rejo at zenger.nl> https://rejo.zenger.nl
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